What affects us affects cats
This is a cute video which has captured the imagination of a significant number of internet users. I can see why. The woman has trained her cat to say ‘Ahh’ – open their mouth wide so she can place a food morsel into the mouth. Why does she do this and not rely on …
There is a story in the Australian news media about the rise in tick paralysis in Gold Coast dogs and cats. I immediately discovered that it is an incredibly serious disease. Certain species of tick cause paralysis in their hosts. In the US tick paralysis is most common in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky …
by Dima (Beirut) Intro: this was first published before May 2012. It is interesting so I have republished today. Hi..I got a very sad story that my baby Blanca has been living since almost 6 weeks by now. She is 8 yrs old white half Persian half angora cat. 6 weeks ago, she started …
Do domestic cats kill snakes, today? We know that at the beginning of wild cat domestication (about 9,500 years ago) semi-domestic cats killed snakes because the snake is on the pray diet for the wild cat ancestor of the domestic cat. Therefore, today’s domestic cats should kill snakes. The short answer, therefore, is that …
The act of insertion of a microchip into a cat carries a risk. I’ve noticed two stories on the Internet that indicate to me that the insertion of a microchip into a cat, a routine procedure, can carry a risk of damage to the cat’s spinal cord. I am sure that this particular risk …
